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Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983–2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in Sri Lanka, and the first on the role of dance in the country’s war.
200 pages, 9 photos
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 7, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9780819578891 |
Publishers | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Dimensions | 236 × 157 × 20 mm · 410 g |
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